 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 718 ページ
...was more creditable to an author to write in Latin, and declared that in English everything was done "in a manner so meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man could do worse." * Nevertheless, changing conditions were 1 Toxophilus, the tchole of Shootinge (1544).... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1908 - 262 ページ
...this Ascham will think it worth while to write in English because " as for the Greek and Latin tongue everything is so excellently done in them that none...both for the matter and handling that no man can do worse1." This single instance of insistence indicates the general tendency to neglect the mother tongue.... | |
 | Foster Watson - 1909 - 648 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake I took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them, that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. For therein the least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. And they which... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1909 - 638 ページ
...over the neglect of native literature when he says, "And as for ye Latin or greke tongue, every thing is so excellently done in them, that none can do better : In the Englysh tonge contrary, every thinge in a maner so meanly, both for the matter and handelynge, that... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake 1 took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or (.ireek tongue, erald Newcomer For therein the least learned for the most part have been always most ready to write, and they which... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 528 ページ
...men. Elsewhere Ascham makes clear the condition of the time: And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them, that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. For therein the least learned for the most part, have been always most ready to write. And they which... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake 1 took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, ONSTER ERBOB. THE WILES And by her in a line a milkp...ARCHIMAOO. FROM BOOK I, CANTO I. she lad.* ! | So pure sn meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. For therein the least learned... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 630 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake I took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them, that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. STUDIES. I. Note the sentence length. 2. How many coordinate conjunctions used in clause connections?... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 ページ
...yeomen of England, for whose sake I took this matter in hand. And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. For therein the least learned for the most part have been always most ready to write. And they which... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 238 ページ
...preface to Toxophilus (1545) puts the case still more strongly: "And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them that none...the matter and handling, that no man can do worse." Even such celebrities as Hawes and Skelton were painfully conscious of inferiority and frequently apologized... | |
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And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them that none can do better. In the English tongue contrary, everything in a manner so meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. 
